When China seized the ‘two Michaels’ (Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig) in December 2018 it was clearly a retaliation for Canada’s arrest, at the behest of the US, of the CFO of Huawei. Canadians were incensed at this violation of law and blamed China for it.
A new book on this affair, entitled appropriately ‘The Two Michaels’, is out and Borealis has a chat with one of the authors, Canadian Press journalist Mike Blanchfield.
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About my guest Mike Blanchfield
Mike Blanchfield is the international affairs writer for The Canadian Press based in Ottawa. Blanchfield has been a journalist on Parliament Hill since 1998. His reporting has taken him across the world, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was the winner of the 2013 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship and travelled to Laos to investigate the deadly legacy of cluster bombs. He worked at the Ottawa Citizen for 22 years to 2009, and covered courts and police for eight years. He has graduated Carleton University twice, with his B.J. (hons) in 1987 and his M.J. in 2015.
About the host Phil Gurski
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. and Programme Director for the Security, Economics and Technology (SET) hub at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute (PDI). He worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) from 2001-2015, specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalisation.
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One reply on “Canada-China relations in the post ‘two Michaels’ era”
… IMVE are pissed off with shite:
Johnson, who will be paid between $1,400 and $1,600 per day during his review, will have access to cabinet records “where necessary,” said the PCO.
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6804373